People

314 identified people of the 1855 colony, each with a page of their own drawing on the source lists, the deeds, the 1860 census and the family trees — and the ships that brought them.

• The roster

  All 314, sorted by surname, with occupation, origin and which of the four source lists name them.

  Santerre 1955 · Foster · Dallas Morning News 1906 · Boyer 1924

• The cast

  The same people sorted roughly by importance — 22 major, 133 medium, 73 minor, 86 very minor — by what the primary record has to say about each.

  The source lists against the deeds, the 1860 census, the family trees, and the findings

• The ships

  The four immigrant ships of 1855 — Nuremberg, Uriel, Lexington, Franziska — with the manifests transcribed line by line and the scans they were read from.

  NARA M259 passenger manifests · Galveston Immigration Database

• The families

  The family trees, where the colonists' descendants have been traced.

• The 1860 census

  The Réunion pages of the federal census and every other colonist household in the county, transcribed, with the colonists matched.